I've been there before, it's hard to choose between beeing extra precise with all indexes and numbers even when they won't mean a thing to some people, or dumbing things down to a more readable but unprecise description like------------------------------------------------------>Less competition More competition

Would you recommend the exact same approach to ask for a backlink update to a webmaster when it wasn't you that initiated the backlink (that is, when it was someone else, not talking about a natural backlink here) ?